53 results about "Ultrasonic lamb waves" patented technology

A system and a method for detecting corrosion of a storage tank base plate based on an ultrasonic Lamb wave belong to the technical field of nondestructive detection for pressure containers. An upper computer (1) is connected with an arbitrary function generation board (2) connected with a power amplifier (3), the power amplifier (3) is connected with a multi-channel selector switch (4) connected with a signal separator, the signal separator (7) is connected with a detecting sensor array and a multi-channel data collection board (9) connected into the upper computer (1), and the multi-channel data collection board (9) transmits a collected signal to the upper computer. The system and method for detecting the corrosion of the storage tank base plate based on the ultrasonic Lamb wave do not need to empty the storage tank or perform liquid surface lifting and can perform on-line detection on an edge board. For the off-line detection of a center board, compared with other detection methods, the system and the method can finish detection of a whole steel plate through one-step excitation receiving so as to be fast and efficient.

The invention discloses a method for analyzing the depth of the crack of a thin plate based on ultrasonic lamb waves and a time-reversal theory. The method comprises the following steps: selecting a thin plate with a crack, and stimulating single-mode Lamb waves IA(t) in the excitation point A of the thin plate; carrying out a sectioning technology to obtain a multi-mode domain signal received by a reception point B, carrying out the time-reversal technology to obtain a reconstructed signal I'A(t) at the point A, and calculating the waveform damage index DI of the reconstructed signal I'A(t) and an excitation signal IA(t); selecting thin plates having different crack depths L, repeating above steps to obtain corresponding waveform damage indexes DI, and carrying out data fitting through a least square technology to obtain a relation between the crack depth L and the waveform damage index DI; and detecting a thin plate with the crack having an unknown depth to obtain the DI value in order to determine the crack depth L. The sectional calculation technology is adopted to effectively solve the problem of propagation of the Lamb waves in a sheet having defects; and the r time-reversal theory is adopted to reconstruct the signal waveform in order to solve the multi-mode problem and the unable identification problem of the reception point, caused by long distance transmission.

The invention concretely relates to an ultrasonic Lamb wave-based butt weld nondestructive testing method and belongs to the ultrasonic guided-wave nondestructive testing field. An excitation source is loaded at the end of a weld joint. Two piezoelectric patches are pasted on the upper surface and the lower surface of a plate symmetrically and excited. The generated weld joint guided-wave mode propagating along the weld joint has high energy and slow attenuation, and the long-distance testing problem can be solved. The testing system is shown in the figure, and composed of a function generator (1), a power amplifier (2), piezoelectric patches (3), an oblique incidence-type piezoelectric ultrasonic sensor (4), an oscilloscope (5) and a computer (6). By utilizing the testing system, when the ultrasonic Lamb wave encounters flaws of the weld joint, flaw echoes are generated. According to the time difference between the excitation waveforms and the waveforms of flaw echoes and the group velocity of the weld joint guided-wave mode, the distance from the flaws to the excitation source can be obtained, and therefore the effective locating of weld joint flaws can be achieved.

The invention provides a nondestructive detection system of sheet metal by ultrasonic planar guided-wave. An ultrasonic transceiver of the system is connected with an encoder and a sensor. The encoder and the sensor are connected with a controller. The sensor is coupled to a steel plate to be detected through machine oil used as a couplant. Electrical signal transmission process of the system is as follows: a computer inputs excitation parameters to control the ultrasonic transceiver to apply an excitation signal onto the sensor while positional information acquired by the encoder and an echo signal acquired by the sensor are transmitted to the computer through the ultrasonic transceiver. Meanwhile, the invention provides a nondestructive detection system of sheet metal by ultrasonic planar guided-wave and a detection method thereof. The invention has the following beneficial effect: by the characteristic that propagation distance of ultrasonic Lamb wave is long, detection range is large and large-area long-distance detection of a plate can be realized only from one detecting point, continuous acquisition of test data can be carried out, and fast effective large-area detection of a sheet metal structure can be achieved. The ultrasonic Lamb wave detection process is flexible and convenient. Quantitative assessment is achieved; detection efficiency is high; and it is easy to achieve automation.

The invention provides an ultrasonic nondestructive detection method of material micro-crack expanded size. The method comprises the following steps: constructing a measurement system; manufacturing multiple reference samples, and performing repeated fatigue test on each reference sample; performing metallographic observation after each fatigue test so as to obtain a micro-crack length of each reference sample, and performing ultrasonic nonlinear Lamb wave measurement to compute a nonlinear parameter beta0 of each reference sample; obtaining a nonlinear parameter-fatigue life curve, marking micro-crack sizes corresponding to various points on the curve; performing nonlinear ultrasonic Lamb wave measurement on the to-be-tested sample to obtain the nonlinear parameter beta0, and finding outthe point corresponding to the nonlinear parameter beta0 in the above curve, and finding the length of the micro-crack corresponding to the point. A relationship of the micro-crack size and the nonlinear parameter is used for judging the micro-crack length and representing the fatigue damage, in-service equipment cannot be damaged, and the micro-crack state of the material on active can be quicklydetected at low cost.

The invention belongs to the field of nondestructive testing, and relates to a ray tracing type ultrasonic Lamb wave defect tomographic imaging method, first, a to-be-measured material imaging area is divided into a plurality of small grids, and the same amount of emission EMAT (electro-magnetic acoustic transducer) and receiving EMAT are arranged on both sides of the area, then all emission ends are allowed to excite A0 mode Lamb wave, all receiving ends at the opposite side receive meanwhile, analysis results of all tested waveforms are extracted, the corresponding time is recorded, the slowness and defect distribution of every grids are determined by use of combined iterative reconstruction algorithm, the obtained defect distribution is used as a known condition for establishment of a RT extrapolation formula, by use of the extrapolation method, a ray path is gradually traced and corrected, and the ray path is gradually traced and corrected repeatedly until high imaging precision is obtained by calculation. The a ray tracing type ultrasonic Lamb wave defect tomographic imaging method avoids the problem of low imaging precision of a traditional TOF cross hole tomographic imaging method based on straight ray theory, is accurate, efficient and fast to calculate, provides an important basis for improving the defect imaging precision, and has broad application prospects.

The invention discloses an online anti-icing and de-icing device for a wind turbine, comprising an ultrasonic generator (1) and a de-icing unit (2) which is used for generating ultrasonic Lamb waves and horizontal shear waves on the surface of a wind turbine vane (3), wherein the de-icing unit (2) comprises a plurality of piezoelectric transducers (21) arranged on the inner surface of the wind turbine vane (3), and the input end of each piezoelectric transducer (21) is respectively connected with the output end of the ultrasonic generator (1). The invention can realize online anti-icing and de-icing of the wind turbine vane without damaging wind turbine vane materials and has the advantages of low energy consumption, low cost and simple maintenance.

The present invention relates to the technical field of signal processing, and provides an ultrasonic Lamb wave defect signal recognition method based on variational mode decomposition, including: step 1, exciting a to-be-detected aluminum plate by using an excitation signal to obtain a raw signal of an ultrasonic Lamb wave; step 2, determining an input parameter for variational mode decompositionaccording to the obtained raw signal of the ultrasonic Lamb wave; step 3, performing variational mode decomposition according to the determined input parameter for variational mode decomposition; step 4, calculating mutual information values between K<critical>-1 IMF components and the raw signal, comparing the mutual information values with a mutual information threshold, considering the IMF components for which the mutual information value is less than the mutual information threshold as false components and removing the false components, determining a final K value and in turn determiningthe number of final decomposition layers; and step 5, after determining the final number of decomposition layers, performing defect identification by using the obtained defect signal of a center frequency. The method enables accurate identification of a defect signal of the ultrasonic lamb wave.

The invention provides a multimodal ultrasonic Lamb wave complex defect tomography method. The method comprises the following steps: presetting a sensitivity threshold THs and a sensitivity dead zone dz, and calculating to obtain the appropriate working frequencies of Lamb waves with A0 and S0 modals; carrying out A0 wave cross-hole tomography and S0 wave cross-hole tomography under respective working frequency conditions by respectively using A0 wave EMAT array and S0 wave EMAT array; and carrying out image fusion, and organically combining two results to obtain a final defect image reconstruction result. The method fully uses different sensitive areas of the Lamb waves with different modals to carry out complementation of the sensitive areas, so the method has the advantages of enlargement of the integral sensitive area of tomography, reduction of influences of noises, effective reduction of the difficulty of extraction of defect characteristic information from a slowness distribution map, improvement of the identification efficiency and imaging precision of complex defects, and wide application prospect.

The invention discloses a device and method for measuring internal stress of plastic sheet products on the basis of ultrasonic lamp waves and belongs to the field of material performance detection. The device mechanically comprises a base, a longitudinal double-servo synchronous-drive moving component, a horizontal servo moving component and a test-piece clamping device; data collection processing and electric controlling systems transmit lamb wave signals on a digital oscilloscope to a computer processing system via a USB (universal serial bus), amplitude signals are processed to acquire stress distribution on different areas, and the electric controlling system controls a servo two-dimensional mobile platform to realize measurement of the different areas. The device and method is high in integration degree and simple in operation, standard splines are calibrated with the lamb wave amplitude signals under different stresses, and quantitative measurement of the internal stress distribution of the plastic sheet products can be realized by detection of lamb wave amplitudes.

The invention relates to a novel electromagnetic ultrasonic transducer. Compared with traditional transducers, the largest difference in design is that the novel electromagnetic ultrasonic transducer can supply a static magnetic field without the need of a magnet, a strongly dynamic magnetic field is generated by a linearly wound coil through excitation of large current, and the dynamic magnetic field and a ferromagnetic plate achieve ultrasonic lamb wave excitation through magnetic coupling. Most of the traditional transducers are excited through lorentz force or magnetostrictive force under static magnetic fields, and the novel electromagnetic ultrasonic transducer achieves ultrasonic wave excitation through lorentz force and magnetostrictive force under the dynamic magnetic field. The newly designed transducer can achieve transduction in a lift-off distance range of 0-9 mm and is superior to the traditional electromagnetic ultrasonic transducers in lift-off performance.

An ultrasonic Lamb wave local circulation scanning probability reconstruction tomography method includes following steps: (1) planning a detection zone and arranging a sensor array on a detection part; (2) selecting a Lamb wave modal and designing an excitation signal, and respectively collecting reference signals and damage signals relative to the sensor pairs; (3) dividing the detection zone to obtain a plurality of sectors, wherein several adjacent sectors are employed as a sub zone; (4) when detection in a sub zone is completed every time, clockwisely rotating the sub zone by a position of one sector to form a next cyclic detection sub zone; (5) performing data selection pre-processing, calculating an valid data length according to the distance among the sensor pairs and the modal speed of the selected Lamb wave; (6) performing local circulation probability reconstruction tomography calculation; and (7) finally performing data fusion and image splicing. The method is strong in anti-jamming capability, is high in precision, can effectively eliminate the influence of multiple faults and the like on the method, and can increase detection resolution rate in multi-fault damage.

The invention discloses a composite material stiffness coefficient non-destructive recognition method based on an ultrasonic Lamb wave technology. The method comprises the four parts including direct problem theoretical modeling, sensitivity analysis, measurement of phase velocity value by experiments and stiffness coefficient inverse problem solving; for a direct problem theoretical model, the self derived novel third-order plate theory is used for solving the spread theoretical phase velocity value of Lamb waves in a composite material plate; the theory considers the plate wave stress free boundary conditions; the complicated step of shearing correction factor calculation required by the ordinary plate theory is avoided; for the sensitivity analysis, the proper spreading angle and the Lamb wave mode are selected, and are the premise for complete reconstruction of nine stiffness coefficients; the experiment uses a non-contact type laser ultrasonic system, and an advanced signal processing method is combined, so that the multi-angle waveguide phase velocity value measurement is completed; finally, an intelligent optimization algorithm is combined; the optimal solution of the composite material stiffness coefficient is obtained through the minimum experimental measurement phase velocity value and the theoretical calculation phase velocity value.

The invention provides an ultrasonic lamb wave second harmonic time domain signal measuring method based on group-velocity mismatch. When phase velocity of fundamental frequency matches phase velocity of frequency-doubled ultrasonic lamb wave and group-velocity is mismatched, a second harmonic signal generated in a fundamental frequency ultrasonic lamb wave propagation process can be fully separated from a second harmonic signal from a wedge ultrasonic transducer in time domain. According to propagation distance of ultrasonic lamb wave time domain pulse and group speed of frequency-doubled ultrasonic lamb wave, a time domain range of corresponding ultrasonic lamb wave second harmonic signal is determined. By adopting integration amplitude enveloped by second harmonic signal in the time domain range as characteristic parameter of measurement, second harmonic generation efficiency of the ultrasonic lamb wave is characterized. According to the invention, measuring condition of the ultrasonic lamb wave second harmonic signal is widened, and influence of the wedge ultrasonic transducer to the ultrasonic lamb wave second harmonic measurement can be fully deducted. The method of the invention can be used for accurate measurement of the ultrasonic lamb wave non-linear effect and lossless evaluation research of non-linear ultrasonic lamb wave of sheet materials.

The invention discloses a method for sparse compression optimization reconstruction of narrowband Lamb wave detection data. The method comprises the steps: an EMAT emitting array and an EMAT receiving array are arranged on two sides of a to-be-tested material detection area, EMATs in the emitting array excite required modal Lamb waves with narrowband frequency respectively according to a preset order, the Lamb waves are received by the opposite receiving array, received Lamb wave detection signals are subjected to narrowband filtering treatment, and narrowband Lamb wave detection data are formed; after the detection data are obtained, discrete Fourier transform is performed, original data are reconstructed by using a teaching and learning optimization algorithm TLBO, a measurement vector and a recovery matrix are optimized, and a low-dimension measurement vector is transmitted to an upper computer. The problem that low detection efficiency is caused because a large-area plate electromagnetic ultrasonic Lamb wave tomography data size is large and the transmission time is long is solved, rapid, large-scale and high-quality data compression and transmission are achieved, a solid foundation is laid for the large-area plate Lamb wave real-time tomography, and the method has broad application prospects.

The invention discloses a method for actively detecting defects in a metal thin-walled structure part, and relates to the field of thin-walled structure part nondestructive detecting. The thin-walled structure part is excited by two different lines of frequency ultrasonic Lamb waves at the same time; through time-frequency combined analysis, the modulation spectrum generated by the defects is rapidly found, the Lamb wave characteristic parameter extracting method is simplified, and the problem that the existing ultrasonic recognition accuracy for fine defects is not high is solved. A testing system comprises a random waveform generator, a transmitting transducer, a non-contact laser vibration measurement instrument, a digital signal oscilloscope, a computer, a tested medium and five coaxial data transmission lines. The random waveform generation is loaded with the two different lines of frequency ultrasonic Lamb waves through the computer, a transmitting transducer array is loaded with signals through the random waveform generator at the same time, and the signals are collected by the non-contact laser vibration measurement instrument, displayed and stored by the oscilloscope and then transmitted to the computer to be analyzed so that Lamb waves and defect related characteristic parameters can be found. The method is suitable for rapidly detecting the defects in the metal thin-walled structure part.

An integrated microfabricated instrument for manipulation, reaction and detection of microliter to picoliter samples. The instrument is suited for biochemical reactions, particularly DNA-based reactions such as the polymerase chain reaction, that require thermal cycling since the inherently small size of the instrument facilitates rapid cycle times. The integrated nature of the instrument provides accurate, contamination-free processing. The instrument may include reagent reservoirs, agitators and mixers, heaters, pumps, and optical or electromechanical sensors. Ultrasonic Lamb-wave devices may be used as sensors, pumps and agitators.

The invention relates to novel electromagnetic ultrasonic transducer design based on the magnetostrictive mechanism. Compared with traditional transducer design, the novel electromagnetic ultrasonic transducer design has the largest difference that a vertical linear coil and magnet separated structure is adopted. A magnet provides a horizontal static bias magnetic field for a system, and a linear winding coil is excited by large current to generate a strong dynamic magnetic field. Since a ferromagnetic material has the magnetostrictive performance, change of material strain is caused by change of a composite magnetic field composed of the static magnetic field and the dynamic magnetic field, and ultrasonic lamb wave excitation is achieved through high-frequency vibration caused by change of strain. Compared with a traditional linear electromagnetic ultrasonic transducer, a newly designed transducer can achieve transduction at a lift-off distance of 10 mm, and the lift-off performance index is superior to that of the traditional transducer.

The invention relates to the technical field of signal processing, and provides an ultrasonic signal processing method based on CEEMDAN combined wavelet packet threshold, which comprises the following steps of: 1, generating an excitation signal by using an electromagnetic ultrasonic transducer to detect an aluminum plate, and receiving an original signal of an ultrasonic lamb wave by using a receiving transducer on the other side of the aluminum plate; step 2, determining input parameters of complete set empirical mode decomposition of adaptive noise according to the obtained original signals of the ultrasonic lamb waves; step 3, according to the determined input parameters of the CEEMDAN, performing CEEMDAN decomposition to obtain n IMF components from high frequency to low frequency; 4, determining a k value through a correlation coefficient method; step 5, wavelet packet threshold processing is carried out on the first k-1 IMF components; and step 6, performing signal reconstruction on the IMF after threshold processing and the reserved IMF. The method can improve the signal processing efficiency and reduce the decomposition time.

The invention relates to a composite material plate layering defect air coupling ultrasonic detection method based on HHT and a neural network. The invention relates to the technical field of composite material defect detection. The method comprises the following steps: determining an excitation frequency and an inclination angle of an air coupling transducer; eMD decomposition is carried out, and an intrinsic mode function is extracted; a BP neural network is established, and network learning is carried out; and identifying the depth, width and length of the layered defect based on the established BP neural network. In the detection process, air is used as a transmission medium to replace a coupling agent in traditional ultrasonic nondestructive detection, so that the problem of secondary pollution of a coupling material to a to-be-detected piece can be fundamentally avoided, the air coupling ultrasonic transducer has the advantages of no contact, no invasion and no damage in the detection process, and the service life of the air coupling ultrasonic transducer is prolonged; therefore, the air-coupled ultrasonic Lamb wave detection realizes on-line rapid detection, and is suitable for ultrasonic detection of layering defects of composite material plates which cannot be subjected to contact detection by using a coupling agent.

The invention discloses an ultrasonic lamb wave touch screen. The disturbance effect of a touch medium on an ultrasonic Lamb wave sound field changes along with the position of the touch medium. An ultrasonic Lamb wave sound fingerprint library of the touch medium is calibrated in advance. In practical application, an intelligent algorithm is used for matching an actual measurement signal with a pre-calibrated sound fingerprint library, and positioning of the touch medium on a screen plate is achieved. The ultrasonic lamb wave touch screen is mainly composed of a main control system, an ultrasonic excitation receiving module, a sensing screen and a display screen module. An ARM is used for realizing acoustic fingerprint identification by a built-in algorithm program to determine the position coordinates of the touch medium on the sensing screen, converting the position coordinates into a control instruction to communicate with the display screen through the MIPI interface, and realizing program touch at the identified position coordinates. The ultrasonic lamb wave touch screen disclosed by the invention can be used for positioning and identifying a non-conductive touch medium, andcan be used for robot touch system design and the like for reference.